04 November 2010 17h00
IMM Studio A 2.24
Kristo Šagor on Music in the Theatre
In films, it's the soundtrack. But what about the theatre?
As well as opera, musicals and song recitals, music also plays a role in so-called spoken theatre. Sometimes it is used to back emotional moments one-to-one, as is usually the case in film, sometimes it is used to intensify emotion, for example by contrasting the poignancy of a moment by its own light-heartedness. Theatre music can provide a commentary; it can also arouse associations through the use of leitmotivs.
Theatre music is often more restrained than music in other media. A little is a lot. The music leaves spaces for action, for the spoken text. Sometimes the director uses favourite music, sometimes the music is specially composed for the play.
Kristo Šagor compiles a brief typology of music, illustrating it with examples from his own and others' productions.
Kristo Šagor is a writer and director. He studied linguistics, literature and theatre at the Free University Berlin. Kristo Šagor has directed at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Schauspielhaus Hannover, among others. In 2008 he was awarded the German theatre prize DER FAUST.
09 December 2010 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Alexander Wodrich on the Sound of Brands
Alexander Wodrich, born in 1969 and a business administration graduate, began his professional career in advertising in 1998 at Wunderman in Frankfurt. From late 1999 to summer 2009, he worked for MetaDesign, a corporate identity and branding agency in Berlin, advising clients including Volkswagen, Audi, DHL, Allianz, Lufthansa and Premiere. From 2007, he was appointed to the management board, with responsibility for the Sound Branding and Motion Graphics Division. His work has won various prizes, including several red-dot and Stevie Business Awards. Since July 2009, he has been working as a freelance brand consultant in Berlin.
Alexander Wodrich is regularly invited to speak at universities and congresses on the subject of brands and sound. He discovered his love of music/ sound at an early age and is himself a musician and DJ.
Based on practical examples and case studies, he will describe in his presentation just what sound branding is and how the target groups of brands are reached through sound.
27 January 2011 17h00
IMM Studio A 2.24
Tina Frank on Still and Moving Images
Stills turn into moving images. Moving images turn into stills. Tina Frank shows her mode of working and the creative process between stills and moving images, when they are influenced by musical parameters.
Since 1995, Tina Frank has been living and working as a graphic designer and artist in Vienna. She has her roots in web design and the design of record covers for experimental electronic music. In 2006, her video »chronomops« was awarded first prize at the »Diagonale« film festival as the best experimental, animated or short film. She is co-founder of the firm U.R.L. Agentur für Informationsdesign GmbH in Wien & Berlin and the design office designby frank scheikl, and since 2007 has headed the creative studio Tina Frank Design. The main focus of her work lies in the area of corporate design, web design, and orientation systems, and in the experimental field of music visualisation. Tina Frank is listed in "Graphic Design for the 21st Century", published by the Taschen Verlag, among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Since October 2008,
Tina Frank has been head of the Graphic Design and Photography Department at Linz University of Artistic and Industrial Design.
19 May 2011 17h00
IMM Studio A 2.24
Ronni Shendar on media art and electronic music production in Israel
The complexities of Israeli society, the history of its establishment and current political conflicts are a convoluted puzzle of challenges and evolving crisis. What does it mean to be a conscious artist working within these circumstances and what are their ramifications on cultural production and artistic processes? Israeli artist Ronni Shendar co-established the c.sides festival in Israel - a non-commercial international festival for innovative electronic music and critical media art, and a platform for critical perspectives on social-political contexts. In her lecture, she will discuss the development of this and other projects in Israel, examining the impact of events such as war, Occupation, economy, politics and international affairs on personal, artistic and cultural prospects.
Ronni Shendar (b. 1979) is an Israeli photographer and media artist (among others, her video works have been shown at the Festival de Cannes and Jewish Museum Frankfurt). As a visual live performer she is touring internationally with a joint audio/ visual performance with German artist/ musician Glitterbug. In 2004 Shendar established Daila - a cross-cultural center for independent art in Jerusalem and in 2005 the c.sides festival, label and platform. Shendar splits her time between Israel and her Cologne studio.
30 June 2011 17h00
IMM Studio A 2.24
Johanna Dombois on Second Worlds – the Opera and New Media
If you look from the opera to new media nowadays and from new media to the opera, you generally see pure distortion: the opera considers media art to be hysterical, in contrast media art considers the opera to be corny. The fact that both are wrong is discussed by Johanna Dombois in her talk which is itself a fusion of reflection and practical example – Dombois' work always comes down to a form of relationship therapy. All too often alleged extremes can also be found one inside the other. In this respect, the opera itself is a primary rock in media, media art theatrical to the core.
Johanna Dombois is an opera director and author and works at the intersection of music theatre/media art. From 1989 to 1995, she studied Drama, German, English and Costume History and Design in Berlin, Vienna and Uppsala. From 2001 to 2005, she was Artistic Director of the Stage for Music Visualisation at the Beethoven-House in Bonn. In 2006, Johanna Dombois earned a doctorate under Peter Wapnewski with a dissertation on Richard Wagner's dramaturgies.